Historical September 1978 report or notice. Original dates, prices, policies and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
A tiered busing plan will be implemented for the 1978-79 school year which will affect the starting times of numerous schools in the St. Louis Public School System. The revised transportation plan is necessary because, under a Consent Decree settlement with plaintiffs in a class action suit involving special education students, the Board agreed to provide charter bus service for elementary special education students who live more than one mile from their schools. These students previously received bus passes.
There are special education classrooms in about 100 St. Louis Public Schools, and providing individual buses for each of the sites would require approximately 100 additional buses at a cost of almost $2.5 million. A plan to tier, or stagger, the starting times of all elementary schools receiving bused-in students will fulfill the requirements of the Consent Decree settlement at an additional cost of only about $200,000.
The schools involved will have starting times of either 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. All Magnet Schools (excluding Mullanphy), and Busch and Kennard schools (Gifted Programs) will start at 9:00 a.m. The 10 regular high schools and O’Fallon Technical Center will start at 8:00 a.m. Schools which do not have bused-in students will continue to start at 8:30a.m.
Hamilton School, 5819 Westminster, will begin classes at 8:00 a.m. and dismiss at 2:45 p.m. Hamilton Branch III, 450 Des Peres, will continue to use the more familiar school day starting at 8:30 a.m. and ending at 3:15 p.m.
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Original school-bus illustration. The Paper, September 1978, page 6. Artist not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, September 1978.
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